AIOP SPECIAL LIMITED FOUR ISSUE EDITION TH THEE 14 STREETEF Every G e Collect e G Exciting Issue RIBUNE All Four Free T Issues Volume One, Issue 4 New York, October 24, 2009 Free Edition TONY PASTOR STARS LILLIAN RUSSELL IN THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE OR AS TONY PASTOR CALLS IT: THE PIE RATS OF PENN YANN Dateline: 1893 CYNTHIA LEONARD THE FIRST WOMAN TO RUN FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK, Mother of Lillian Russell Dateline: 1888 Cynthia Leonard, mother of the operetta singing star Lillian Russell, made her own history as the first woman to run for mayor of New York City. Mrs. Leonard was an early advocate of the rights of women, one of the first suffragists, and a writer of novels. In Chicago she established a homeless shelter for unfortu- DINING AT LUCHOW’S nate women and pioneered prison reform by advocating by Madame LuLu LoLo the placement of women matrons in Chicago prisons. Who did Madame LuLu LoLo see dining at Luchow’s last night? None other than that man about town Diamond Jim Brady with his favorite companion the beautiful Lillian Russell. Diamond Jim was eating his usual first course of twelve dozen oysters to be followed by selections from Luchow’s German and Austrian menu: wiener schnitzel, sauerbraten, and wild game, all washed down by good German beer and followed by Austrian tortes. The beautiful restaurant with its carved oak paneling, floor to ceiling mirrors, etched glass and paintings by Goya, Van Dyck, and the painting Mr. Luchow bought at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair by Swedish artist Augusto Hasgborg is the place where the theater and music folk of 14th Street dine and hope to be seen. You are surrounded by two hundred beer steins and mounted animal heads, the hunting trophies of August Luchow. There is even a “Victor Herbert Corner” where the composer eats and composes his music. I can’t wait for the next banquet Diamond Jim hosts at Luchow’s. He always tucks a piece of diamond jewelry in a napkin as a party favor “Tony Pastor’s New Fourteenth Street Theatre” in the for his guests. I take my hat off to August Luchow a same building as Tammany Hall offers polite variety waiter who borrowed $1,500 from one of his customers entertainment for the family. Mr. Pastor, the Father of LILLIAN RUSSELL SALUTES William Steinway of Steinway pianos to open his own Vaudeville, does not allow smoking or the sale of liquor HER MOTHER restaurant “Luchow’s”. in his establishment and offers gifts of coal and ham to Dateline: May 3, 1914 his patrons. Mr. Pastor introduces his latest star, giving her the name ‘’Lillian Russell’. Miss Russell sings the Lillian Russell in an interview with Dijuna Barnes HUBER’S DIME MUSEUM CLOSES role of Mabel and her clear full throated lyric soprano said about her mother, Cynthia Leonard: Makes Way For reaches out to all in the audience. Her beautiful voice is “I was brought up on suffrage milk.” “ What have I Luchow’s Restaurant matched by her captivating beauty. The actress, Marie done that I should be famous—nothing but powdered a Dateline: July 16, 1910 Dressler said of Lillian Russell, “I can still recall the bit gently the cheeks that God gave me and smoothed It was at Huber’s Dime Museum rush of pure awe that marked her entrance on the stage. the hair that I was born with, laughed, and proven a where a young Harry Houdini was And then the thunderous applause that swept from faultless set of teeth. Any grinning idol, well painted, taught the basics of rope-tie escapes by orchestra to gallery, to the roof.” can do as well, but the real women, the big women, are those who toil and never write of it, those who labor the Australian Magician George Dexter. and never cry of it, those who forfeit all and never Dexter was known as “the inside seek reward. Begin this article with the name, Lillian barker” or what we call today a master Russell, but end it with the name of such as was of ceremonies. Dexter helped launch Cynthia Leonard.” Houdini’s career as an escape artist. Look for the Union Square NewsBoy on Union Square to get your free copy of The 14th Street Tribune on the following days: Friday. October 2nd from 8-11 am First Issue • Saturday, October 10 from 8-11am Second Issue Sunday, October 18 from 12-3pm Third Issue • Saturday, October 24 from 4-7pm Fourth Issue P h Collect all Four issues • they will become Collector's Items o to : Pa Presented by Art in Odd Places 2009: SIGN, an annual festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious ul Tak in the spectacle of daily life euchi E AIOP SPECIAL LIMITED FOUR ISSUE EDITION E THE 14TH STREET TRIBUNE DELMONICO’S COMES TO 14TH STREET Dateline: April 9, 1862 Lorenzo Delmonico has opened the most luxurious restaurant in New York on Fifth Avenue and 14th Street. The new uptown Delmonico’s Restaurant, with an added café for male patrons only, allows women with escorts into the restaurant. Delmonico’s is famous for changes in dining habits, becoming the first restaurant to seat patrons at their own tables, and the first to use tablecloths, and printed menus. Delmonico’s French Chef Charles Ranhofer created innovative dishes naming them after celebrities who dined at Delmonico’s: Veal Pie à la Dickens, Beet Fritters à la Dickens, and Sarah Potatoes for Sarah Bernhardt. Chef Ranhofer did not invent Baked Alaska as has been reported but made it popular in 1876 when the US acquired Alaska as a territory. He also intro- duced the “alligator pear” (avocado) to New York in 1895. Chef Ranhofer prepared the dinner for the Prince of Wales at the Academy of Music and the banquet for Samuel Morse when Morse sent the first transatlantic cable from Delmonico’s. His cuisine made Delmonico’s the finest restaurant in the United States and he published his cookbook the Epicurean in 1894. OBITUARY: DEATH OF THE PATERSON SILK BUILDING Dateline: March 17, 2005 It was a sad day on 14th Street and University Place today when a wrecking ball smashed the double-height LETTERS TO THE EDITORS FROM THE POLICE BLOTTER glass-walled tower of the Paterson Silk Building designed Dateline: 1876 by the 14th Street Tribune Police Reporter in 1949 by architect Morris Lapidus. Mr. Lapidus created Dear Editor, Dateline: 1886 the Miami Beach flamboyant hotels “palaces of Delmonico’s is famous for Lobster Newberg. How did this kitsch”: the Fontainebleau and the Eden Roc. Morris dish get its name? Lapidus’ motto was, “Too much is never enough”. He said Sincerely, that the first time he got an emotional surge about archi- Mrs. Mary Ryan tecture was when he saw Coney Island’s Luna Park. “I was Dear Mrs. Ryan, standing on the elevated platform just as dusk was falling Lobster Newberg was born at Delmonico’s Restaurant in and the lights went on. To me it was the most beautiful 1876. Ben Wenberg a sea captain who always ate at sight I’d seen. Of course, I knew it was hanky-pank, a cir- Delmonico’s, came into Delmonico’s telling Charles cus, and showmanship. But to a child of six it was all the Delmonico he had a new way to cook lobster. He asked for a chafing dish and cooked the lobster dish at his table. wonders of the world. I never outgrew it.” Landmarks Delmonico found the dish delicious and put it on the menu, Preservationists tried to save the building but to no avail. naming it Lobster a la Wenberg. The dish became very pop- ular at the restaurant. Months later Wenberg and Delmonico OBITUARY: got into a big argument and Delmonico banished Wenberg from the restaurant and changed the name on the menu from CHARLES DELMONICO FOUND Lobster Wenberg to Lobster Newberg. DEAD IN SOUTH ORANGE, NJ The Editor of The 14th Street Tribune Dateline: January 14, 1884 Dateline: 1915 This Week’s Police Blotter Salutes Inspector The body of Charles Delmonico, who inherited Dear Editor, Thomas F. Byrnes, Head of the New York Delmonico’s Restaurant after the sudden death of his How many votes for mayor did Cynthia Leonard receive City Detective Bureau. uncle Lorenzo Delmonico in 1881, was found in a ravine in 1888? in South Orange, New Jersey. Mr. Delmonico seemed to Miss Priscilla Faulkner This week’s Police Blotter salutes Inspector Thomas have fallen to his death. Mr. Delmonico had disappeared F. Byrnes, head of the New York City Detective Bureau. suddenly from his home on 14th Street around noon on Dear Miss Faulkner, Inspector Byrnes instituted many innovative procedures January 5th. Why he was in South Orange, New Jersey Cynthia Leonard, the first woman to run for mayor in the into the world of law enforcement. Detective Byrnes and how he met his untimely death is a mystery. City of New York, received only four votes. created the “Rogues Gallery” a book of photographs of The Editor of The 14th Street Tribune criminals. He also created one of the first line-ups of TH suspects before detectives calling it “The Mulberry SIGHTINGS ON 14 STREET Street Morning Parade”. He named his brutal ques- by Madame LuLu LoLo Photographer Available tioning of suspected criminals “The Third Degree”. For All Your Expressive Needs Victor Herbert called a meeting at Luchow’s with fellow Dateline: 1895 composers John Philip Sousa and Irving Berlin. At this meet- ing they founded the American Society of Composers, Theodore Roosevelt, the new President of the New Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) to protect the rights of York City Police Commission forced Inspector Thomas composers and musicians (February 13, 1914).